COSA Youth Renaissance is now welcoming submissions for its third annual Music as Muse Prize. The contest welcomes works of poetry and visual art and is open to all high school juniors and seniors in the San Antonio and surrounding area. All work submitted must be based on the musical compositions listed below, which will be performed at this year’s fall concert:
Joaquin Turina: La Oracion del Torero (The Prayer of the Bullfighter)
Rodion Shchedrin: Carmen-Suite (Intro)
Rodion Shchedrin: Carmen-Suite (Finale)
We encourage you to listen to each piece and let the music inspire you to create a new work of your own. Links are available above, with additional performances available on YouTube. We look forward to reading and viewing your submissions. Submission guidelines are as follows:
For poetry, please submit between 1-3 poems. Poems must not exceed 90 lines. For visual art submissions, art in any medium is acceptable, except video and film. Artists may submit between 1-3 works.
For all submissions, include a brief note indicating the musical composition that inspired your work. Poets, please submit your work as a doc or pdf file; artists, please submit quality images of your art piece as a jpeg file. Email your submission to: musicasmuse@chamberorchestrasa.org. Include your name and title of your work in the subject box of the email (e.g. Jane Doe: “Carmen's Tears”). In the body of the email, please include your name, high school, phone number, email address, and title(s) of your work.
The deadline for all submissions is August 15, 2013. Please remember, all work submitted must be based on the musical compositions listed above. For additional questions, contact: musicasmuse@chamberorchestrasa.org.
Three finalists from each category will be contacted and chosen to present their work during the COSA fall performance on September 6th at the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts. First place winners from each category will each receive a prize of $300. Two runners up from each category will each receive a $100 prize.